Have listened to this, and all J Wise and Sage interviews, a number of times. I respectfully suggest you are taking his comments a little too literally. They were not suggesting fusions have been reset based on one internal player. To the contrary, they we saying (in line with patch notes) that; 1. Fusion rifles have have undergone a journey for a continuous beam "bacon-ator" way way back in development before alpha to the weapon we received at launch; 2. The design principle behind fusion rifles is to reward people who can lead targets, manage recharge, projectile speed, range and recoil with reliable 2HK using a combo of head crits and body hits; 3. Once mastered this class melts face. The issue is a only a small part of the Community have mastered this weapon. My sense is its a weapon that requires a lot of experimentation and practice. If you check out http://www.guardian.gg (shows in game data from Bungie data files) usage on PS and XB across all game types is approx. 1.5-2.5% of daily player base (800-900k folks). Note, its was Interesting to see that usage blushed up to roughly 3.2% on 5th Dec just for the day - not sure why. I have followed Bungie on balance for a long while, including their tech. lectures on the science and physiology of balance at GDC and the like. They clearly has sound grasp on this, often misunderstood and technically challenging, field. Put simply Wise and the balance team know their craft and so there may well be some hidden gems in the fusion rifle class. Wise and Sage appeared to the dropping a few hints to this effect. I am going to spend the next few days experimenting and seeing if I can create a secret sauce load out and put this potential face melting beastie to the test. The whole gun load out experimentation thing is a huge amount of fun for me in Destiny as it provides the depth of weapon, character class and armour features that enable an enormous amount of exploration and choice - [b]FUN INDEED[/b] :) If I discover anything I will post in this and related threads. Merry Xmas gallp EDIT : to acknowledge Wisnewski's boss Sage

I still have a blast with my Plan C and Susanoo, but they definitely got an accuracy nerf after the last patch and it's very noticeable. Not sure why this is even an argument anywhere. Bungie said ADS accuracy was going up, instead it went down. This has been documented with many YouTube posts already yet devs and our community managers haven't given us any type of update. It's bull.

It's kinda ridiculous to base a nerf to an entire weapon class off of one guys skill with them. I'd wager the guy in question could probably wipe the floor with them with any weapon he chose. Some people are just that good.

With practice a Fusion can be an absolutely monstrous at the right range. The whole aspect of predicting player movements is the key. Honestly I think they wanted to nerf Fusions a bit more before they became op. I'd rather they let that happen after we figured Fusions out. Then also bring in some new Perks for them.

Did they forget about the vex mythoclast not being a normal fusion rifle? Because it kicks like a horse now. If they did buff the mythoclast accuracy, it would be overpowered.

So they confirmed exactly why I thought they would nerf them constantly because I always thought "They must be getting constantly killed by someone with a fusion even after each nerf so they keep doing it". Maybe I was the wizard?

I like to think of myself as a fusion wizard. 50% or more of my kills in a match are with my trusty fusion.

I go flawless with fusion rifles They got buffed Lear to time the charge rate and they made the gun recoil more vertical than hortizontal (they said so) and it's easy af to pull down and into the direction they're moving at auto rifle fall off range. Y'all need to git gud at fusions

Yeah, I always roll my eyes to people that say "I know a guy that can melt with x-weapon". Like don't tell me the story, show me the proof. Actions speak louder than words.